| The Super Bowl is about sitting, eating and drinking, and, most critically, eating and drinking at the same time, while sitting. It is also about football and prop bets and jingoistic commercials and, | If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version | | | | | | | | | January 30, 2019 | | The Case Against Super Bowl Parties A Reluctant Polemic | | | | | | | The Super Bowl is about sitting, eating and drinking, and, most critically, eating and drinking at the same time, while sitting. It is also about football and prop bets and jingoistic commercials and, if we have to go there, much-ballyhooed pop music extravaganzas. Summarily, it is about America. Here, though, is what the Super Bowl is not about... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | David Eulitt/Getty Images | | | | |